See Courvoisier's law in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "surgeon",
"2": "",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": ""
},
"expansion": "surgeon",
"name": "named-after/list"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Ludwig Georg Courvoisier"
},
"expansion": "Ludwig Georg Courvoisier",
"name": "lang"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Ludwig Georg Courvoisier",
"born": "1843",
"died": "1918",
"nat": "Swiss",
"occ": "surgeon"
},
"expansion": "Named after Swiss surgeon Ludwig Georg Courvoisier (1843–1918)",
"name": "named-after"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Named after Swiss surgeon Ludwig Georg Courvoisier (1843–1918).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Courvoisier's law",
"name": "en-prop"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Medicine",
"orig": "en:Medicine",
"parents": [
"Biology",
"Healthcare",
"Sciences",
"Health",
"All topics",
"Body",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A medical observation stating that a painless palpable gallbladder accompanied with jaundice is unlikely to be caused by gallstones, implicating a possible biliary tract or pancreatic cancer."
],
"id": "en-Courvoisier's_law-en-name-S4~AUPtG",
"links": [
[
"medicine",
"medicine"
],
[
"medical",
"medical"
],
[
"observation",
"observation"
],
[
"painless",
"painless"
],
[
"palpable",
"palpable"
],
[
"gallbladder",
"gallbladder"
],
[
"jaundice",
"jaundice"
],
[
"gallstone",
"gallstone"
],
[
"biliary tract",
"biliary tract"
],
[
"pancreatic",
"pancreatic"
],
[
"cancer",
"cancer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(medicine) A medical observation stating that a painless palpable gallbladder accompanied with jaundice is unlikely to be caused by gallstones, implicating a possible biliary tract or pancreatic cancer."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Courvoisier's sign"
},
{
"word": "Courvoisier syndrome"
}
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"sciences"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Ludwig Georg Courvoisier"
]
}
],
"word": "Courvoisier's law"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "surgeon",
"2": "",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": ""
},
"expansion": "surgeon",
"name": "named-after/list"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Ludwig Georg Courvoisier"
},
"expansion": "Ludwig Georg Courvoisier",
"name": "lang"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Ludwig Georg Courvoisier",
"born": "1843",
"died": "1918",
"nat": "Swiss",
"occ": "surgeon"
},
"expansion": "Named after Swiss surgeon Ludwig Georg Courvoisier (1843–1918)",
"name": "named-after"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Named after Swiss surgeon Ludwig Georg Courvoisier (1843–1918).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Courvoisier's law",
"name": "en-prop"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English eponyms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English proper nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Medicine"
],
"glosses": [
"A medical observation stating that a painless palpable gallbladder accompanied with jaundice is unlikely to be caused by gallstones, implicating a possible biliary tract or pancreatic cancer."
],
"links": [
[
"medicine",
"medicine"
],
[
"medical",
"medical"
],
[
"observation",
"observation"
],
[
"painless",
"painless"
],
[
"palpable",
"palpable"
],
[
"gallbladder",
"gallbladder"
],
[
"jaundice",
"jaundice"
],
[
"gallstone",
"gallstone"
],
[
"biliary tract",
"biliary tract"
],
[
"pancreatic",
"pancreatic"
],
[
"cancer",
"cancer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(medicine) A medical observation stating that a painless palpable gallbladder accompanied with jaundice is unlikely to be caused by gallstones, implicating a possible biliary tract or pancreatic cancer."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Courvoisier's sign"
},
{
"word": "Courvoisier syndrome"
}
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"sciences"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Ludwig Georg Courvoisier"
]
}
],
"word": "Courvoisier's law"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Courvoisier's law meaning in English (1.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.